Freedom House

Freedom House, Inc. is a non-profit organization that relies upon tax-deductible grants and donations under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code. Corporate researcher Holly Sklar (1989) described it as a "conservative research, publishing, networking, and selective human rights organization." Freedom House's work is linked to the "democracy promotion" efforts of the National Endowment for Democracy.

Helps coordinate the UN Democracy Caucus.
 * Jennifer L. Windsor - Executive Director

"Adrian Karatnycky served as executive director for a year (1993) and then became president (1994-2005) when James Denton was apointed executive director (1993-2001), following the absorption into Freedom House of his National Forum Foundation (NFF)."


 * Sklar, "Washington Wants to Buy Nicaragua's Elections Again: A Guide to US Operatives and Nicaraguan Parties," Z Magazine, December 1989.


 * David J. Kramer - Executive Director (as of August 2010)
 * William H. Taft IV - Chair

Background
Freedom House describes itself as non-partisan and broad-based, "a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world." It was founded "nearly sixty years ago by Eleanor Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, and other Americans concerned with the mounting threats to peace and democracy, Freedom House has been a vigorous proponent of democratic values and a steadfast opponent of dictatorships of the far left and the far right."

Freedom House sees itself "at the center of the struggle for freedom ... It was an outspoken advocate of the Marshall Plan and NATO in the 1940s, of the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, of the Vietnam boat people in the 1970s, of Poland's Solidarity movement and the Filipino democratic opposition in the 1980s, and of the many democracies that have emerged around the world in the 1990s ... Freedom House has vigorously opposed dictatorships in Central America and Chile, apartheid in South Africa, the suppression of the Prague Spring, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, and the brutal violation of human rights in Cuba, Burma, China, and Iraq ... It has championed the rights of democratic activists, religious believers, trade unionists, journalists, and proponents of free markets. In 1997, a consolidation took place whereby the international democratization training programs of the National Forum Foundation were incorporated into Freedom House."

Staff
Accessed March 2011:

Freedom House, Washington, DC
 * David J. Kramer, Executive Director
 * Paula Schriefer, Director of Advocacy
 * Mary McGuire, Press Officer
 * Robert Herman, Director of Programs
 * Daniel Calingaert, Deputy Director of Programs
 * Lisa Davis, Deputy Director of Programs and Director of RIGHTS Program
 * Viviana Giacaman, Senior Program Manager, Latin America
 * Victoria Amato, Senior Program Officer, Latin America
 * Jenai Green, Senior Program Officer, Exchange Programs
 * Robert Guerra, Project Director, Internet Freedom
 * Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn, Senior Program Manager – International Religious Freedom & Southeast Asia
 * Sherif Mansour, Senior Program Officer, Middle East North Africa
 * Sam Patten, Senior Program Manager, Eurasia
 * Courtney Radsch, Senior Program Officer, Freedom of Expression
 * Sarah Trister, Congressional Liaison Officer
 * Katie Zoglin, Senior Program Manager, Middle East and North Africa
 * Quoc Nguyen, Chief Financial Officer
 * Jennifer Koliba, Director of Compliance and Overseas Operations
 * Tiffany Huynh, Controller
 * Jacquelyn J. Bennett, Chief Operations Officer

Freedom House, New York
 * Arch Puddington, Director of Research
 * Christopher Walker, Director of Studies
 * Aili Piano, Senior Researcher and Managing Editor, Freedom in the World Survey
 * Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Senior Researcher and Managing Editor, Freedom of the Press Survey
 * Sanja Kelly, Senior Researcher and Managing Editor, Freedom on the Net Survey
 * Jake Dizard, Managing Editor, Countries at the Crossroads

Other
 * Godfrey Mupanga, Kenya Project Director

Board of Trustees
The Freedom House Board of Trustees is self-described as "composed of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independents; business and labor leaders; former senior government officials; scholars; writers; and journalists."

Writing in 2007, Diana Barahona had an alternative (more accurate) description of their board of trustees, which she said was "a Who's Who of neoconservatives from government, business, academia, labor, and the press." 

Accessed March 2011:


 * William H. Taft IV, Chair
 * Ruth Wedgwood, Vice-Chair
 * Thomas A. Dine, Vice-Chair
 * Walter Schloss, Treasurer
 * John Norton Moore, Secretary, Governance & Ethics Officer
 * Max Kampelman, Chairman Emeritus
 * Bette Bao Lord, Chairman Emeritus
 * Kenneth Adelman, Goli Ameri, Stuart Appelbaum, Susan J. Bennett, James H. Carter, Antonia Cortese, Lee Cullum, Charles Davidson, Kim G. Davis, Paula J. Dobriansky, Alan P. Dye, Carleton S. (Carly) Fiorina, Rebecca G. Haile, Sidney Harman, D. Jeffrey Hirschberg, Lionel C. Johnson, Kenneth I. Juster, Kathryn Dickey Karol, Jay Mazur, Theodore N. Mirvis, Dalia Mogahed, Alberto Mora, Faith P. Morningstar, Joshua Muravchik, David Nastro, Andrew Nathan, Diana Villiers Negroponte, Lisa B. Nelson, Mark Palmer, Scott Siff, Richard S. Williamson, Wendell Willkie II, Jennifer L. Windsor, Richard N. Winfield

2006 Board of Trustees
Source
 * Peter Ackerman, Chairman
 * Stuart Eizenstat, Vice-Chairman
 * Mark Palmer, Vice-Chairman
 * Ned W. Bandler, Secretary, Governance and Ethics Officer
 * Walter J. Schloss, Treasurer
 * Max M. Kampelman, Chairman Emeritus
 * Bette Bao Lord, Chairman Emeritus
 * Jacqueline Adams
 * Kenneth L. Adelman
 * Bernard Aronson
 * Alan P. Dye
 * Thomas S. Foley
 * Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr. (otherwise known as Steve Forbes)
 * Theodore Forstmann
 * Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
 * Sidney Harman
 * Robert Hormats
 * Samuel Huntington
 * John T. Joyce
 * Kathryn Dickey Karol
 * Farooq Kathwari
 * Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
 * Anthony Lake
 * Nancy L. Lane
 * Mara Liasson
 * Jay Mazur
 * Michael McFaul
 * John Norton Moore
 * Azar Nafisi
 * David Nastro
 * Andrew Nathan
 * Diana Villiers Negroponte
 * P. J. O'Rourke
 * Nina Rosenwald
 * David M. Rubenstein
 * Arthur Waldron
 * Ruth Wedgwood
 * Wendell L. Willkie II

Funding
Freedom house collected $23.5M in revenue during 2005. 
 * Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
 * Byrne Foundation
 * Carthage Foundation
 * Scaife Foundations
 * Eurasia Foundation
 * Ford Foundation
 * The Freedom Forum
 * Grace Foundation, Inc.
 * Lilly Endowment, Inc.
 * LWH Family Foundation
 * National Endowment for Democracy
 * Pew Charitable Trusts
 * Sarah Scaife Foundation (Scaife Foundations)
 * Schloss Family Foundation
 * Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.
 * Soros Foundations
 * Tinker Foundation
 * Unilever United States Foundation, Inc.
 * US Agency for International Development
 * US Information Agency


 * F. M. Kirby Foundation

Related Organizations

 * American Committee for Peace in Chechnya
 * Freedom of Expression Project
 * Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
 * Jamestown Foundation
 * Gozaar
 * Freedom House: Dialogue on Reform in the Arab World

NB: These organizations often co-host events, there is personnel overlap, and at some point have shared offices.

Contact
New York Office: 120 Wall Street, Floor 26 New York, NY 10005 Phone: 212-514-8040 Fax: 212-514-8055 Email: info AT freedomhouse.org Web: http://www.freedomhouse.org

Washington D.C. Office: 1301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Floor 6 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: 202-296-5101 Fax: 202-293-2840